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Ayogo Named Winner in Professional Services Category at BC Export Awards The BC Export Awards are the province’s most prestigious awards paying tribute to the success and innovative approaches of BC export companies to both the provincial and national economy.

Ayogo Named to Ready to Rocket 2017 List for Second Time – Digital Health Ready to Rocket Ready to Rocket is a unique business recognition list that profiles B.C. technology companies with the greatest potential for revenue growth. Since 2003, the Ready to Rocket list has consistently predicted the revenue growth leaders and the companies most likely to attract investment. Ayogo, a

By Darryl Pogue iOS 11 brings some new, perhaps unintuitive, behaviour around the status bar area which will be particularly important for developers using tools like Apache Cordova or Ionic. In particular, this change in behaviour affects any web-based apps that use fixed position header bars when they are built for iOS 11. This post helps you understand the Webview

Alexa Diabetes Challenge Finalists Ayogo and HCL America jointly submitted My GluCoach, to the Alexa Diabetes Challenge. The Alexa-based app is a voice-based diabetes teacher, lifestyle coach, and personal assistant that learns from the patient-user’s wearable and medical devices and through interaction over time. Ayogo’s Maddy Bazett and Brian Carter co-developed the concept. Ayogo and HCL are one of five finalists awarded $25,000, 10 000

The following opinion on #BCTECH Summit healthcare innovation appeared in the Vancouver Sun on March 14, 2017. Excerpt: Thousands of B.C.’s brightest minds are converging in Vancouver on March 14-15 for the #BCTECH Summit, a celebration of this province’s fast-growing, and increasingly important, high-tech sector. The biggest players in the industry will be there showing off their emerging technologies. So too will

Global Digital Health 100 has named the top health technology product companies in the world. An expert jury made the hard choices. On the list you’ll find heavy-hitters such as Philips Healthcare and Janssen’s Care4Today, side by side with Ayogo, and other emerging leaders. Canadians Rank High Globally for Health Tech Product Innovation Ayogo was not the only Canadian company to

Ayogo’s team compiled this informal list of Healthtech Innovations from 2014: health technology, health apps, media & games that captured our hearts and minds in 2014. Ayogo’s Levente Opelcz suggested we include https://makeit.intel.com/finalists.  From that list, the Babybe tugged at our heartstrings: BABYBE keeps mothers and their babies connected through the process of artificial incubation in a NICU by bringing haptic information from the mother to baby, including heartbeat and touch. Ayogo’s

Excerpt from Ayogo’s CEO Michael Fergusson’s interview with Eric Wicklund at the mHealth Summits: MF: Because it’s a fundamental aspect of human psychology to play, video games are taking advantage of what we are interested in. That’s why games work.  To keep you engaged in the game they try to mimic this effect that comes from real life – that you need

Vancouver UX Awards 2014 Finalist Empower is a behavioural health intervention, designed for patients with chronic conditions and difficult or complex care plans to help them engage with and manage their health more effectively. Empower works – improving outcomes for patients and their caregivers by enhancing intrinsic motivation, helping develop a sense of agency, and integrating healthy action into daily

Ready to Rocket 2014 Life Sciences List Ready to Rocket is a unique business recognition list that profiles B.C. technology companies with the greatest potential for revenue growth. Since 2003, the Ready to Rocket list has consistently predicted the revenue growth leaders and the companies most likely to attract investment. Ayogo, a Vancouver tech company was awarded a 2014 Ready to Rocket

PharmaVoice 100 Ayogo’s Michael Fergusson is included in Life Science industry’s award PharmaVoice100 which recognizes the most inspiring people in the life-sciences industry. PharmaVOICE 100 recognizes the most inspiring people in the life-sciences industry, as determined by our readers. They are innovative and have the ability to think outside-the-box. They develop breakthrough strategies, products, and services. These most game changers are determined by

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012  – Social (Pacific) This is a unique category among the awards. It’s given in recognition of an entrepreneur whose achievements have driven large-scale social change and improved people’s lives or quality of life. “I’d like to express my thanks to the jury, and acknowledge that this award is really a tribute to

Angel Forum Best Post-Revenue Company Angel Forum™ in Canada that introduces emerging companies to private equity Angel Investors. Presenting companies have raised over $35 million directly through the Forum. Angel Forum: Best Post-Revenue Company

World  Congress Names Paul Prescod a Top Ten Innovator in mHealth The World Health Care Congress celebrates innovators who offer fresh ideas, innovative strategies and unique insights. In their annual conferences on mHealth they focus on actionable and strategic mobile technologies that address escalating health care costs, challenges in quality, new models for finance and improvements in delivery. Paul Prescod received the honour for

Vancouver Start Up Week – What’s Next in Digital Health Panel: (L–R) Curtis Duggan, Brendan Byrne, Michael Fergusson, Richard Osborn, Sarah Goodman, Denny Hollick Vancouver has become a mecca for digital health startups, innovators, entrepreneurs and VCs. Vancouver bats above its weight when we look at Canada’s VC deal making. For example, Toronto recorded 70 deals in two years while Vancouver

Rocket Builders has named Ayogo Health Inc. to the top health science technology companies that will likely experience significant growth, venture capital investment or acquisition in the coming year. This award is particularly important to Ayogo because it recognizes our success as a health science technology company that delivers ROI to our customers. This is not the first time Ayogo Health has

The Ayogo Team took time to help out a fantastic local organization, A Loving Spoonful, at their Cash and Food Drive last week! News 1130 and Breakfast TV were broadcasting live on-site at the event and caught the Ayogo Team in action, including a brief chat with Michael Fergusson about why it was important that Ayogo lends a hand: …it’s the Christmas season. We

The Global Digital Health 100 Award list recognizes the most innovative companies working in the mobile and digital health sectors today. Reflecting the evolving importance of mobile technologies and digital solutions within the healthcare sector, we are delighted to be able to acknowledge the significant work being carried out, in this field, by pioneering organisations from around the globe. “It’s

Both tech startups and the telecom giant Telus are united in the belief that B.C.’s emerging health-tech sector is ripe for the taking. Canadians are willing to explore these avenues further, as long as they have assurances their medical information is secure. A 2013 study from PwC found 67% of Canadians would be open to using virtual monitoring – the

When peers celebrate each other, sometimes the results get pretty silly.  But the playful elements are what build employee engagement. In a recent article in Business in Vancouver magazine, Ask the experts: Companies need to use creative measures to inspire today’s workforce, here’s what Ayogo’s CEO Michael Fergusson had to say about the serious fun Ayogo employs to foster positive employee

Ayogo Named to Top 100 Most Innovative mHealth Companies for Second Time Ayogo has been recognized for a second time, as one of the most innovative and disruptive health technology companies globally. Ayogo is one of the few Canadian companies listed. We are deeply honoured to remain among the top 100 digital health companies even as competition and innovation have

The 2016 International Serious Play Awards competition today recognized the collaboration between Ayogo and Genentech with a Silver Award for two health-games that illustrate immunotherapy. The award winning health games include T-Cells Attack and Lymph Node Labyrinth. Each relates to the science behind the Cancer-Immunity Cycle. Cancer immunotherapy is the most talked about area of research today. Genentech is a global leader in developing cancer medicines, and cancer

Ayogo and Genentech Collaborate on Award Winning Health Games The 2016 International Serious Play Awards competition today recognized the collaboration between Ayogo and Genentech with a Silver Award for two health-games that illustrate immunotherapy. The award winning health games include T-Cells Attack and Lymph Node Labyrinth. Each relates to the science behind the Cancer-Immunity Cycle. To help educate about the science underlying cancer immunotherapy, and to highlight Genentech’s thought

AstraZeneca and Ayogo: A Winning Pharma Collaboration The EyeforPharma Awards in Philadelphia reunited the Ayogo team with AstraZeneca’s Diabetes team, May 2, 2016. As Top 3 Finalists, they were there to be recognized for their collaboration on Fit2Me for Most Valuable Pharma Collaboration. Ayogo developed the interactive site, Fit2MeCoach.com. Fit2Me, a free, digital, diabetes patient support program, has been described by MM&M as “cannier,

VANCOUVER, BC. Ayogo welcomes obesity treatment developers, physicians, researchers, and product teams to Vancouver as they arrive from around the world to attend the XIII International Congress on Obesity (ICO2016). The ICO2016 obesity conference is hosted by the World Obesity Federation and the Canadian Obesity Network (CON) and will be held May 1 to May 4, 2016 at the Vancouver

Sleep Guru Wins Bronze for Best Mobile App The insomnia support application Sleep Guru was created by Ayogo for Merck as a companion support to the Belsomra medication. Sleep Guru won bronze for Best Mobile App at the DTC National Advertising Awards in Boston. Sleep Guru is a beautiful app that pulls together a curriculum of behavior change made up of